Good morning.
I'm speaking to a deck that's entitled “Overview of the 2006-2007 Report on Plans and Priorities and Supplementary Estimates”. I'll go right to slide 3.
What we're attempting to do through this deck in terms of context is relate the main estimates to the report on plans and priorities, which the committee discussed the last time we were here, and of course the supplementary estimates. The main estimates identify the main spending authorities of Parliament, and for this particular year the main estimates were tabled on April 25, 2006. The report on plans and priorities, which we discussed briefly last time, provides our anticipated spending plans by our strategic outcomes and our program activities and expected results.
This year was an unusual year, in that the RPP wasn't tabled until September 26, 2006. As we identified last time, the RPP reflects what we anticipate we're going to spend, and it is accurate as of that particular time. As we discussed at our last meeting, there have been some changes, which we'll get into a little bit later on in the deck.
The supplementary estimates, which is the main purpose for our presence this morning, were tabled on October 30, 2006, and they're currently going through the parliamentary process for approval. The final step in the process is the departmental performance report. It will be tabled some time this month, but that will speak to our performance for 2005 and 2006, obviously, given that this year is not finished yet.
On slide 4 we have a representation of main estimates over main estimates. As you can see from 2005-2006 to the current year, just based on a comparison of main estimates, our departmental estimates have increased roughly by 5%, or $73 million.
On slide 5 we get into a representation of how we track from the main estimates to the report on plans and priorities. Again, this chart is by program activity. Our department has nine activities. They're listed in the left-hand column of the chart. And as you'll note, we've broken out “science” separately, which supports each of our three strategic outcomes. So if you go to the third-last column, going from right to left where we have the total main estimates figures, in the next column to the right you see the adjustments, which total $162.4 million, which gives us the adjusted figure of $1.6758 billion, which is reflected in the RPP.
The next slide identifies the supplementary estimates. Again, you'll note that going from our main estimates figure, which has been approved, we are requesting through supplementary estimates roughly $217 million, which, if approved, would bring our revised spending authority to $1.7308 billion. You will note that is higher than the report on plans and priorities figure.
The meat of the presentation is reflected on the next slide, page 7, and there we track again from the main estimates figure, the planned adjustments we considered in putting together the report on plans and priorities. So there you see in that first column to the right the $162.4 million, which was the additional amount we had anticipated spending as reflected in our RPP. The far-right column reflects the amount of money we're asking for through the supplementary estimates.
You will note that for many of the items we had anticipated spending through the RPP, we are requesting the funding through supplementary estimates. So the big ticket items like the Atlantic salmon endowment fund and our additional funding of $99 million through the transformational plan are in both columns, and we are asking for the amount of money through the supplementary estimates.
You'll see some additional amounts we're also requesting through supplementary estimates that we did not consider or did not know the figures at the time of the RPP. I would draw to your attention the carry-forward that combined with the Marshall carry-forward is roughly $65 million. So that's a fairly substantial figure we did not have defined at the time of the RPP.
It takes you to the bottom line of what we are requesting through supplementary estimates. Again, if approved by Parliament, that would give us a revised spending level of $1.7 billion, approximately.
I won't dwell on the next few slides for very long. They basically take the revised spending figure and slice and dice it in a number of different ways. For example, on page 8 we have the revised spending by program activity.
As I said, against our strategic outcomes, we have nine activities within the department. To help you with some of the acronyms, HAPAE is “healthy and productive aquatic ecosystems”. That's one of our strategic outcomes. The SFA is “sustainable fisheries and aquaculture”, and SAW is the “safe accessible waterways”.
That basically shows the spending, by activity. We have grouped the science together, because science supports each of those strategic outcomes.
On slide 9, we have the same total amount divided by sector. The main difference here is that what we call “program enablers” are shown separately. The categories across the top of the chart, such as communications, corporate services, etc., are all part of the enablers.
On slide 10, we have the planned spending. Again, it's the same figure, by region. You will note the figure for national programs is fairly large, but that includes an amount of money that in most cases is actually transferred to the regions through the course of the year.
Finally--and I won't speak to this unless there are any questions--as annex A, we have our revised planned spending by program subactivity. In other words, it includes the nine activities and subactivities in support of those, for each of 2006-07, 2007-08, and 2008-09. Again, recognizing that 2007-08 and 2008-09 is planned spending, those figures are obviously going to adjust over time.
That completes my presentation, Mr. Chair. We'd be pleased to answer any questions from the committee.
